Louisiana. A bit wild, mysterious, but so promising for the Laffite brothers. Pierre and Jean took a liking to the Gulf of Mexico and bravely plundered Spanish merchant ships to then smuggle the stolen goods into New Orleans. Barataria Bay was a perfect place for them. Overgrown with a dense vegetation, it seemed inaccessible and unfriendly, and therefore ideal for a safe haven for pirates. And although the Laffite brothers broke with the world of crime for a short time and risked their lives for the sake of the United States and won a favour from then-President Andrew Jackson, their pirate nature was unstoppable. Forced to abandon Barataria Bay, they took from it what is most valuable and what was to be associated forever with the years of their greatest glory …